Articles in the Planet Ubuntu Category

I blogged a couple of weeks ago about the addition of the key performance indicators to the Ubuntu QA Dashboard. Since that post the QA team has been hard at work. We have added a bootspeed KPI to the dashboard, giving you a quick look at today vs yesterday. Another cool feature that has been added to the dashboard is the addition of bug information. Previously the dashboard just provided a link to the bug in Launchpad. The dashboard now fetches the bug data from Launchpad and displays it for …

Recently there has been a huge push for quality in Ubuntu. The goal is to have a stable and usable daily image of the development version of Ubuntu. To do this, the QA teams have spent a lot of time writing tests and manually testing everything in Ubuntu to ensure this high level quality. The QA Team is also developing the QA Dashboard to display all of the results from the testing that is being performed. The goal of the QA Dashboard is to start at high level overviews of …

Last cycle we saw quite a number of changes to the way that planning works for Ubuntu. Some of these changes are causing issues that the current implementation of the Ubuntu Status Tracker is not easily able to handle. The main issue that I have noticed from helping people setup their work items and blueprints for tracking is that tracking needs to not be so closely dependent on the Ubuntu release cycles. This is causing issues in two ways. The first that I have seen is that a feature is …

Next Tuesday, May 14 starts the second Virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit. Based on feedback, this vUDS will be three days long. Don’t forget to register for the event. A list of currently approved blueprints is available on Launchpad. If you find that one is missing, you can create your own. Keep an eye out this week for scheduling to start.
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I have been a Google Chrome user for a while now, and I have two different ‘Users’ in Chrome. The default user is my personal account, and then I have a work account. For my personal email I use a Google Apps Gmail account and just check my email with Chrome. I use Thunderbird to check my work email. For a while now I have had an issue where I click a link from Thunderbird and it tries to open in my default Chrome user. This doesn’t work very well …

Friday I decided to create a new OpenPGP key to migrate off of my 1024D keys to something a little more current as far as how secure it is. With this, I created a 8192R key. I have also created a transition statement. If you trust me and wouldn’t mind signing the key and uploading it back to the keyserver after you are complete, it would be very much appreciated.